where else can students obtain a knowledge of the homœopathic system of drug administration, its claims and its methods. We claim, and stand ready to demonstrate from past record and present work, that the homoeopathic is the most frequently curative, the surest and safest rule under which drugs can be administered to the sick. But in so far as we are first physicians and then specialists, in so far as we aspire to be healers rather than dogmatists, we claim no "only law" as our exclusive possession; we gladly watch and guide the workings of one law, recognizing it as one beneficent channel through which works the Eternal Law, remembering what Boerhaave had written on the walls of his operating room "I dressed his wounds; and God healed the man."

THE INTERNATIONAL HOMEOPATHIC CONGRESS. Once again the GAZETTE would call the attention of its readers to the fact that in September, beginning on the tenth and ending on the fifteenth, there will be held at Atlantic City, N. J., the seventh quinquennial international homoeopathic congress. It will be the third of its kind to be held in this country, the first having been held in Philadelphia in 1876, the second in Atlantic City in 1891. Once in five years is not very often for the homoeopathists of the world to meet for the purpose of discussing subjects of importance to the Cause, of reviewing the past and formulating plans for the future, of interchanging experiences along the practical side of professional life, of giving and receiving scientific knowledge which has been acquired during the interval of separation, of comparing notes, views and impressions which life's work inevitably calls into existence of finding out what is being accomplished, and what modifications of thought and conditions Time is bringing about, in different parts of the civilized world.

The social and fraternal side of such a gathering also must not be lost sight of, and since it is promised that quite a number of delegates from abroad are to be in attendance it behooves Americans, as hosts, to extend, generously and hospitably, the right hand of fellowship to their guests. This can be done only by being personally in attendance at the Congress.

It is only now beginning to be realized how many interests the Congress will include. Having very little administrative machinery and having practically no business to transact, the Congress can and will devote its time to scientific matters. Before many days the preliminary program and official announcement will be distributed, as it is the custom in the Institute to distribute programs a month before a meeting, and the Institute has charge of this duty in behalf of the Congress.

The composition of the Congress will be as follows:

1. The American Institute of Homœopathy.

2. Delegates from abroad.

3. The Surgical and Gynaecological Society of the A. I. H. 4. The Obstetrical Society of the A. I. H.

5. The Ophthalmological, Otological and Laryngological Society.

6. The National Society of Physical Therapeutics.

In addition three state societies are to hold their regular annual business meetings during the week, but merge their other interests with the congress. These are the New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania state homoeopathic medical societies. The International Hahnemannian Association by recent postal vote changed its plans and decided to hold its annual session in Atlantic City a few days prior, so that its members also may be on hand for the Congress.

The American Institute of Homœopathy itself represents for scientific work five bureaus: on Homœopathy, on Materia Medica, on Clinical Medicine, on Pedology, and on Sanitary Science, and to each of these a day has been assigned, the last two to hold their meetings on the same day. These five bureaus plus the Sectional and other Societies make nine departments in which the scientific work of the Congress is to be done. Unusual interest in these departments will be found in the fact. that essays from foreign colleagues have been contributed to seven of the nine.

In addition to our own the following countries are to be represented by delegates in person: England, Australia, France, Holland, and Brazil, while Tasmania, Italy, and probably Germany, India and Japan, will be represented by reports and contributions of papers.

The Institute as usual will hold daily business sessions. Aside from routine business, much of which will be exceptionally interesting and important, the Institute will discuss the wisdom of abolishing its single annual volume of transactions and substituting therefor a monthly journal. A committee of energetic men has been at work on this subject and will be prepared with a report, but it will be for the membership of the Institute to decide whether or no such substitution shall be made. The question should not be hastily decided. It should not be settled one way or the other as a matter of sentiment. All the practical and useful features should be considered thoughtfully and with knowledge of the factors involved. The financial side-ways and means-should be intelligently weighed and closest estimates obtained. The scholarly ability and general fitness required of editorial and business ends of the management should be considered. The character of the journal should be definitely decided. Whether or not it shall be simply a publication of transactions in monthly instalments rather than annual form, or if the ordinary journal style be adopted, whether or not the profession has confidence enough in any one man as editor to allow him to speak officially for the Institute and the profession should be carefully thought of. If a journal be voted for, the Institute will make itself sponsor for the advertisements which will be included, and without which no journal lives happily to-day. The question is not a simple one, and those who vote on it should make every effort beforehand to acquaint themselves with the details, the possibilities for good and harm, in short with everything connected with the subject.

The question of holding the annual meetings of the Institute in September instead of in June as heretofore may come up for discussion. The attendance at and success of the coming meeting are factors which will go a long way in deciding the advisability of making such a change.

Various standing and special committees are certain to bring in reports on subjects which will be of great importance to the welfare of homoeopathy, and it behooves the homœopathic physicians not only of New England, but of the entire country, to use every effort to attend the forthcoming meeting of the Institute and of the Congress.

SCIENCE VS. YELLOW.FEVER.

New England may never have to face a yellow fever epidemic, but New England has a disease ever present within her borders that has destroyed more lives than yellow fever has ever done and from which a smaller percentage of those attacked recover, but a disease the spread of which can be prevented by the persistent and intelligent use of simple measures, as simple in fact as the measures made use of during the summer of 1905 in the fight New Orleans had to carry on against an epidemic that paralyzed business and destroyed the lives of many of its citizens. It would seem hardly possible that a fascinatingly interesting story could be told of the ravages of mosquitoes, and of the efforts of a big city in fighting for its life by annihilating these small pests. It is a fact, however, that Samuel Hopkins Adams in McClure's Magazine for June has told in an attractive and impressive manner a story which though intended for the laity can be profitably read by the profession. The story tells with convincing detail how three United States Army Surgeons in 1900 performed on themselves and others a carefully conducted series of experiments which conclusively proved that yellow fever is produced by the bite of a particular variety of mosquito.

It tells how recognition of this simple revelation of Science pointed out most logically and definitely the one and only means of terminating the epidemic; of how while some doctors and nurses labored indefatigably to cure cases of yellow fever during the epidemic other doctors with clergymen, sanitarians, local and national health officers, and city officials, aided by intelligent citizens fought patiently, stubbornly and at times even bravely to overcome the cause of the disease, thus striking at the very root of the epidemic.*

That a terrible and fatal disease like yellow fever should be spread by a very small apparently inoffensive insect; that this insect should be but the innocent incubator and transmitter of the virus itself, and that by destruction of the special variety of mosquito the disease yellow fever can be stamped practically out of existence is a real triumph for Science, and an encouragement to those who have to deal not with yellow fever but with an equally easily exterminable disease now known as the White Plague. The value of widely educating the laity and securing the efficient coöperation of the public is exemplified in New Orleans' experience last year with yellow fever.

"Only the stegomyia species transmits yellow fever and this through the bite of the female. The male is not a blood-sucker. Other mosquitoes do not afford the proper conditions for the development of the disease within their own bodies, and without such development, transmission to the human animal is impossible. The anopheles, which carries malaria as the stegomyia carries yellow fever, and the familiar and savage culex are not allies of Yellow Jack. The stegomyia is as common on and near the southern coast as is the familiar winged nuisance in the northern and western towns."

A B.U.S.M. GRADUATE IN THE ROLE OF ADAM.

It is an odd and interesting position for a man to find himself in-that of giving new and permanent names to many thousands of beings entering on a new life. So we are told, Adam found himself bidden to do, when, as Kipling says, the "world was so new 'n 'all." So, in this later time, a graduate of Boston University School of Medicine is called to do, in a place widely removed from the scenes of his student days. In the process of merging the Sioux Indian nation into American citizens, it becomes necessary that every individual shall receive a name suitable to be borne by an American citizen. Such a name, Dr. Charles A. Eastman, himself born of the Sioux nation, but the possessor of a thorough English education, and holding degrees from Dartmouth College and Boston University School of Medicine, has been delegated by the United States government to select, and bestow upon each individual Indian of the Sioux nation. The task, arduous though it be, has compensating qualities of quaintness and picturesqueness. Dr. Eastman is by all showings, singularly fitted for its able fulfil

ment.

MEDICAL EDUCATION FOR WOMEN IN CANADA.

The time was, and that not so very long ago, when for women to even think of studying medicine was considered preposterous, unwomanly, unnatural, etc. That day is, fortunately, passed, and it is no longer considered immodest, unsexing, or unnatural for a woman to prove herself quite able to master the mysteries of an unstable, uncertain medical science and art. Co-education also in things medical has proven itself to be not only possible but useful, and medical co-education has recently made progress in Canada. We find in the "Toronto Mail and Empire" for Monday, June 11, that the Ontario Medical College for women has been absorbed by the University of Toronto as a result of reorganization of the University of Toronto and the Toronto General Hospital by legislation which went into effect on June 15. The Ontario Medical College for Women has been in existence for twenty-two years, its first term having commenced in the fall of 1883 with one student in attendance. During the twenty-two years of its existence one hundred and twenty-one (121) students have graduated, many of whom occupy distinguished positions in various parts of the world. A free dispensary was established in connection with the College in 1889, at which some twelve thousand (12,000) patients have been treated. It is believed this charity will be continued by some of the women physicians of the city. The medical faculty of the University of Toronto while declaring